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John White found himself with time on his hands after his retirement and it was loneliness and a willingness to do something for someone with dementia that reunited him with an old friend from 50 years ago.
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An 86-year-old grandmother has become the oldest student to graduate from the University of Bristol – after leaving school aged 15 with no formal qualifications.
After eight years of studying, Peggy Styles,.....

Admiral Nurses are specialist dementia nurses who give expert practical, clinical and emotional support to families living with dementia.
Susan Ashcroft-Simpson, from the Manchester Mental Health and Social.....

TV presenter Davina McCall, has revealed how she “grieves the loss “of her “old Dad” since he got dementia, but says they are “forging a new relationship, a different one, where perhaps he might need me more”.
Davina,.....

With his tattoos, leather jacket and goatee, Ric Mason, is in many ways the image of a classic biker. Yet, several times a week he sings to people living with dementia in Bridgend, South Wales, encouraging them to sing and dance along.....

Julia Crichton-Smith, an Exeter Royal Voluntary Service home library volunteer and manager, told homecare.co.uk about her experience of being a volunteer and the impact her work has on older people in the community.
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The charity Independent Age has issued guidance to help protect vulnerable people from being the victims of scammers, after a 91-year-old lost tens of thousands of pounds over a three-year period.
Agnes was tricked by scammers.....

“There is such a need for dementia-friendly barbers, says Lenny White, who has been making men with dementia feel good about themselves again.
Based in County Down, Northern Ireland, he started cutting the.....

With more than two million people expected to be living with dementia by 2050, a leading home care provider has created a new interactive guide on ‘how to make a dementia friendly home’.
The online interactive.....

Since the referendum on Brexit last year, the number of nurses from the EU registering to practise in the UK has dropped by 96 per cent.
The Health Foundation obtained figures from a Freedom of Information.....

Family is everything to Teresa Walker. Aged 49, the grandmother of five, lives in her Plymouth home with her husband Kevin as well as Roma, Kerry and Matt, who are not related to her but are treated like family anyway.
Teresa.....

Eighteen-year-old Georgina Callander, was one of the 22 people killed in a bomb attack at Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester, but she had spent her short life determined not only to meet the US singer but to pursue a career caring.....

Over a million potential voters with learning difficulties and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are at potential risk of being excluded from the voting process of the upcoming General Election on 8 June 2017......

Living Paintings, a specialist publisher for blind and partially sighted people, is reaching out to combat social isolation and loneliness through a nationwide book group called ‘Touch to See’.
The book.....

Forty-one-year-old Chris Graham has Alzheimer’s but is wasting no time in cycling the length of Britain to raise money for research into a disease that has killed his father at 42, grandfather at 46, aunt at 38 and cousin at 41.
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Many women with Autism are not diagnosed with the condition until they reach middle age, leaving them wondering what is ‘wrong with them’.
Boys are still five times more likely to be diagnosed with Autism.....

Judges from Britain’s Got Talent were moved to tears by an audition from 16-year-old singer Harry Gardner, who sang the song ‘Not Alone’ about his grandmother who recently died from Alzheimer’s.
Judge Simon.....

Rhys Chandler is urging more men to consider the care sector having risen through the ranks to become a senior care co-ordinator at HomeCare Plus, part of the Nurse Plus Group.
Rhys Chandler joined Nurse.....

One of the UK's bravest centenarians is hoping to break the world record for the oldest tandem skydiver.
Great-grandfather Bryson William Verdun Hayes, aged 101, tried skydiving for the first-time last year.....

Keith Oliver, a successful and respected head teacher, is one of 42,000 people in the UK living with early onset dementia. On New Year's Eve in 2010, aged just 55, his life was turned upside down when doctors confirmed 'the unknown'.
Since.....